Re: Matrix, array, or tensor? (was Re: n-dim matrices)
[email protected] (Karl Glazebrook) Wed, 06 Sep 2000 08:45:26 -0400
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Well in PDL we called them 'piddles' for precisely this reason! The problem is they ARE arrays, which perl already has, just with a more compact storage and nicer representation. And we ARE proposing to make them look like plain perl arrays remember! So let's keep CALLING them arrays! I suggest something like RFCxxx: Arrays: compact storage for large numerical arrays RFCxxx: Arrays: efficient multidimensional notation RFCxxx: Arrays: overloading, reduce, whatever... This is also good as it looks like we are just proposing various upgrades to Perl arrays which people will like. etc. Karl